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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#emile #life #simplicity #vanity #life

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#civilization

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#fave #true-to-fact #awesome

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#faith #god #nature #faith

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#inspirational

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#freedom #liberty #will #freedom

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#poverty #poverty

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#mystery #rosseau #unattractiveness #love

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#nature

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#flexibility #humorous #personal-development #personality #self






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Moreover Rousseau advocated the opinion that insofar as they lead people to virtue all religions are equally worthy and that people should therefore conform to the religion in which they have been brought up. Following the French Revolution other commentators fingered a potential danger of Rousseau’s project of realizing an “antique” conception of virtue amongst the citizenry in a modern world (e. Although in this state he deprives himself of some advantages which he got from nature he gains in return others so great his faculties are so stimulated and developed his ideas so extended his feelings so ennobled and his whole soul so uplifted that did not the abuses of this new condition often degrade him below that which he left he would be bound to bless continually the happy moment which took him from it for ever and instead of a stupid and unimaginative animal made him an intelligent being and a man.

Rousseau's novel Émile: or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings—his Confessions which initiated the modern autobiography and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker—exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing.

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